A small Destiny Rules review....

[ThePenguin]

“I own the masters,” Lindsey Buckingham says quietly when his bandmates question his desire to release Say You Will as a two-disc set. All of a sudden it becomes very clear why this group essentially broke up for 15 years. Filmed in 2001-02 as the band recorded and mixed the album, this 80-minute doc is a lot like Metallica’s Some Kind of Monster. In Destiny Rules, Lars Ulrich is played by Stevie Nicks while Buckingham takes the role of James Hetfield. Mick Fleetwood just wants to spend his time being British, and John McVie is bored to tears by the constant passive-aggressive bickering between Nicks and Buckingham. Ol’ Lindsey has a vision for this album and is willing to take a big financial hit to make it happen — until he realizes just how big the financial hit will be. So to hell with the double set; here’s a long single disc. The hidden camera footage is the best part here, showing what the players are really thinking about each other. — MW